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Title: You'Ve Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu: An A-To-Z Guide to English Words from Around the World by Eugene Ehrlich ISBN: 0-8050-6163-0 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: English, a truly international language.
Comment: This illuminating, well-researched and entertaining reference, introduces us to a comprehensive collection of foreign words and phrases that have, over many decades, been adopted, assimilated, and absorbed into our English lexicon.
This book is written in a very clear, informative style, with the author's whimsical, humorous commentaries often adding a pleasurable and often witty touch to his discussion.
The words are arranged alphabetically in a dictionary format, which facilitates browsing or consulting. Each entry includes the word's pronunciation, origin, original meaning, approximate date of introduction into English, and the meaning of its current usage.
If you want to know how, when and where from words like smorgasbord, chutzpah and paparazzi and expressions like femme fatale and persona non grata made it into English, then this is the book you need. It's a fun historical record of our vocabulary's most celebrated international contributors.

Rating: 5
Summary: HIGH MUCK-A-MUCK AT ITS BEST! (LOOK IT UP!)
Comment: Let's play vocabulary catch-up: The word "ketchup" is as American as burgers and fries, right? Wrong! The word is actually derived from the Chinese word "ke-jap," which means "fish sauce." In this fascinating volume, renowned linguist Eugene Ehrlich takes us on an eye-opening (and sometimes jaw-dropping) tour of how Americans have taken words from other languages and used them as our own. Kitsch? It's German, and means "trash." Ukulele? It's Hawaiian, and means (literally) "leaping flea." High muck-a-muck? It's Chinook and means "plenty to eat." The book is plenty of fun.

Rating: 5
Summary: This book transcends all space and time!!!
Comment: I loved this book!!!! I had this problem. I had ketchup on my muumuu and I didn't know what to do about it. So, I looked up "you've got ketchup on your muumuu.com" on the internet and I found this wonderful, lifesaving book!!! It was exactly what I needed. I discovered how to classify the ketchup by tomato content and acidity. Armed with this information, I was then equipped to deal with my ketchup/muumuu situation. I then took the book and rubbed it vigourously back and forth against my muumuu. This served to create a significant source of friction which heated my muumuu up to a point where the ketchup began to slide off. My muumuu was painful for weeks but at least the ketchup was removed. Oh my, thank you, thank you, Eugene Erlich, Eugene Enrlich!!! You've saved my life!!!!

Footnote (Feb 2004): I would like to apologize to Eugen Erlich! The above may not be entirely serious and more to the point all the items in the above account may not be factual. In fact, some of them are just downright silly and others are flat-out bald-faced lies. Go Fight Win. Black Crowes really weren't that good a band. You know, that Bernadette Peters sure was hot in her day. Oh yeah, check out my mustard review. That's where it all comes together. That's the good stuff baby!